This is a great idea and would also foster collaborative
opportunities for law librarians as well as creating learning resources that can benefit law students everywhere.
Earlier guides cover: how to hire a law librarian, new
roles for law librarians, competitive intelligence, collection rebalancing, negotiations and space planning.
-- There is no clear career
path for a law librarian who wants to continue in a leadership role but who does not have the dual degrees.
Runner up: Library Boy: For nearly twelve years, SCC reference librarian Michel - Adrien Sheppard has summarized important news and happenings
for law librarians across Canada.
Sessions included, for example, a Thursday morning session by Professor Sam Trosow on property
law for law librarians (including a session on copyright law), followed by a session by UWO Law Librarian John Sadler on researching secondary legal literature.
It was organised by Juriconnexion, the French
Association for law librarians and others whose work involves legal information, and was funded by sponsorship.
I've also seen centralization happen so that law libraries lose their individual autonomy; this again leads to less jobs and less
need for law librarians.
So, AALL, stay as you are and keep up the good work as the centre of
gravity for law librarians (even those of us in Canada, and elsewhere outside the US).
Law library consultant Nina Platt is the editor of the new PinHawk News free daily email alert
service for law librarians, the Librarian News Digest.
A few weeks ago, Connie Crosby wrote about the
challenge for law librarians in earning a law degree, especially if they're already working in a law library and don't want to attend law school full time.
4) Strategic Partnerships: There is much to be
said for law librarians to break out of the «cocoon» of the law library and partner strategically with other staff within the organization.
The Computing Services special interest section of the American Association of Law Libraries has launched a new Web
site for law librarians with an interest in blogging.
What follows in this post are some initial thoughts on what I think is a fairly important
topic for law librarians and legal researchers: (a topic I might consider researching in detail if I ever were to pursue a doctorate in information studies): what, if anything, can be done to lessen the anxiety that legal researchers suffer during the research process?
AALL Spectrum was kind enough to publish in their March 2012 edition my article called «Legal Project
Management for Law Librarians» (PDF, 4 pages).
The battle for autonomy in law libraries has been fought for decades in the ABA Standards, as has the importance of faculty
status for law librarians.
In «Keeping Current Can Be Hard to
Do for Law Librarians» (May 30, 2007), Tricia Kasting discusses her efforts to keep current with new developments impacting her work, particularly the uses and impacts of various social software tools in her organization and the new features of subscription databases.
For more general information about Twitter, check Lyonette Louis - Jacques, «
Twitter for Law Librarians: Real Life Happens Between Blog Posts and E-Mails,» CALL Bulletin, No. 209, Fall 2008, at 38.
Easy for law librarians and research lawyers, not so easy for lawyers and articled students that have other things to do.
I think Sean now lives overseas and apart from all the material on PS he puts out a fortnightly
newsletter for law librarians that is available by subscription.
In many firms, there are opportunities for the RFP process to be improved and there are opportunities
here for law librarians to work with their Marketing Department counterparts and firm management on organizing and standardizing their RFP documentation.
Emerging technologies have changed the
landscape for law librarians; O'Grady's blog provides guidance on the newest tools available to the profession and on opportunities for librarians to be a driving force for innovation.
To be on hand, to offer guidance, to observe and occasionally join the students in discussing research strategies and resources, was gratifying and
meaningful for the law librarians too, and a Saturday well spent.
According to the U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, job
growth for law librarians is expected to be as fast as the average and job opportunities are expected to be favorable since a large number of librarians are expected to retire in the coming decade.